Running a marathon is an event, and rewarding gifts is one of the important factors to motivate athletes. This paper will explain what gifts are generally rewarded for running a marathon from four aspects: athlete's point of view, competition type, regional culture and environmental protection concept.
1, player's angle
The player's perspective is an important decision-making factor for the type and quality of reward gifts. Generally, the gifts awarded in marathon events include: commemorative medals, commemorative shirts, sports drinks, energy food, etc. These reward gifts are all essential items for professional players, and some rewards may also be given cash rewards.
For individual leisure players, they may not need these professional rewards, but will pay more attention to commemorative gifts, such as commemorative towels, pillows, bracelets, certificates and so on. For these high-value gifts, the money invested by players is expensive.
2. Type of competition
Different types of competitions will also affect the types of reward gifts. For example, elite marathons usually have a lot of cash rewards, because these events are the world's top marathons, and cash rewards are very attractive. In the mass marathon, in addition to cash bonuses, there will be more reward gifts, including other prizes that attract the public.
3. Regional culture
Regional culture is also one of the factors that affect the types and quality of reward gifts. In some places, marathon events will reward local specialties, for example, Beijing Marathon will reward mooncakes, a Beijing specialty; Guangzhou Marathon will reward Guangzhou specialty jerky. These local specialty goods can well express the culture and characteristics of the region, and are also a way to reward players.
4. Environmental protection concept
The concept of environmental protection has also begun to play an increasingly important role in the design of reward gifts for marathon. Traditional reward gifts (such as disposable plastic water bottles and bags) may bring convenience in a short time, but in the long run, they will have a huge negative impact on the environment. Therefore, more and more marathon events begin to pay attention to environmental protection, from gift design to material selection, such as environmental protection water bottles, environmental protection bags, environmental protection food and so on.
When choosing a reward gift, marathon organizers need to focus on the needs of athletes, combined with factors such as competition type, regional culture and environmental protection concept. Through reasonable reward gifts, we can not only motivate the players, but also promote the local economy, while not forgetting the concept of environmental protection. Only in this way can the marathon be more perfect.
Expand knowledge:
Marathon is a very popular long-distance running event in the world, with a total length of 26 miles and 385 yards, which is equivalent to 42. 195 km (also known as 42. 193 km). There are three kinds of marathons: full marathon, half marathon and quarter marathon. Full marathon is the most popular. Generally speaking, a marathon is a full marathon.
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Originally, there was no world record for the marathon, only the best result in the world. However, in order to stimulate the development of road races, IAAF decided to set new world records for marathon, race walking and other road races from 10 in 2004.
Players' physical condition needs to be recognized by the medical institutions of the competition before they can participate in the competition.
Marathon runners in Beijing Olympic Games should not drink water casually.
42. The distance of195km is a challenge to the limit of human physical fitness. In the competition, although athletes will also get some water from small tables on the roadside or people standing on the roadside. But this drinking water can't be handed over casually by anyone.
In the marathon, water and other drinks are provided at the beginning and end of the race, and there is a drink station every 2.5 kilometers along the race route. Water and drinks should be placed where athletes can easily get them when they pass by. Athletes can also bring their own drinking water, and they can set up drink stations where they need it. Drinking water and wet sponge supply stations are arranged between two beverage stations.
There, long-distance runners and race walkers can get drinking water when they pass by, and they can also squeeze water from the sponge to wash their hair, which plays a role in cooling down. In addition, athletes can't get drinks from other places on the competition route.
It can be said that "water" is the most rigorous part of the marathon. In addition, athletes can compete along the correct route under the supervision of the referee. If there are special reasons, they can leave the competition route under the supervision of the referee, but if they leave without supervision, they will be disqualified.
Famous events
Paris Marathon
In spring, Paris is the most suitable city for walking in the world, with budding trees and blooming flowers. The Paris Marathon held this season every year has undoubtedly attracted many long-distance runners. On the day of the competition, traffic control will be implemented on the roads around Paris to reduce traffic flow. The Paris city government also encourages citizens to use public transportation, bicycles and walking as much as possible, which can be described as "environmentally friendly Paris".
With the improvement of organization, the Paris Marathon has gradually attracted the top runners in the world. Although the audience in Paris is still limited, this does not prevent the Paris Marathon from becoming one of the greatest city marathons in the world.
In 2003, Kenyan Roth won the Paris Marathon men's championship in 2 hours, 6 minutes and 32 seconds, breaking the best result of this event. Defending champion French contestant Z Virzi set the best result of the 2002 Paris Marathon, which was 2 hours, 8 minutes 18 seconds. He narrowly missed the champion in this year's competition by 2 hours, 6 minutes and 36 seconds and won the second place. Another player from Kenya, Ossa, won the third place by 10 second.
The Paris Marathon attracted more than 30,000 long-distance runners. The champion of women's competition was also won by Kenya. Owanza beat Italy's Konleso in 2 hours, 27 minutes and 4 minutes1second, and Tanzania's Masani won the third place.
Route: The starting point of shooting is Rue Galilee next to the Champs Elysé es, and the east-west jogging route will cross the whole of Paris. Along the way, you will pass the Place de la Concorde, the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower and many other famous places of interest.
Scale: more than 20,000 people